Two of the three suspects apprehended Friday have been identified by The Chillicothe Gazette as James Nelson II, 36, and Jesse Hanes, 38, and were reportedly taken into custody on murder warrants stemming from the fatal shooting last month of a Londonberry, Ohio man.
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Witnesses say they heard around six shots when the Hatch police officer was shot while making a traffic stop.
The Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Department says Hanes was the driver of a silver 1991 four-door Lexus that was stopped by Officer Chavez at 3:41 p.m.
According to local media, two men wanted in connection a shooting in OH last month, as well as the murder of a police officer at a traffic stop in New Mexico have been detained.
Three suspects were taken into custody after a New Mexico police officer was shot dead during a traffic stop.
Authorities said the trio was responsible for shooting Chaves and for shooting another man during a carjacking, which triggered a high-speed chase. Officials did not immediately know how the men had made it there, The Albuquerque Journal reported.
“We’re not gonna allow these folks to get away”. One motorist, who was driving a red Chevy Cruze, was also approached by the man in the red shirt and was reportedly told to hand over his keys and go with the man in the red shirt.
Hanes fled after shooting the man, but sheriff’s deputies were able to stop him by using a tire-deflating device. He then exited the vehicle and was observed to have suffered a gunshot wound to the upper right thigh. At the time of the stop, Hanes had one front-seat passenger, described as a white male, and another passenger in the rear of the vehicle, described as a black male. They found no one wounded and had not made any arrests by late afternoon.
Sheriff’s deputies have taken over public safety duties in Hatch while the Police Department mourns Chavez’s death.
“There’s a total of eight [officers] out there”.
Hanes, 38, is also wanted on a murder charge in OH, his last known address, Jameson said. “Our hearts break for the loss of a fearless law enforcement officer senselessly killed while doing his job-protecting us”.
Hanes was 16 and living in Columbus when he pleaded guilty in 1995 to involuntary manslaughter and other charges.
Nelson, who also goes by “JD”, has a string of drug-related convictions in central OH dating back to the mid-1990s.
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Hanes remains hospitalized and has not been booked.
